Improvement for utilizing steam



` of Virginia, have invented a new and useful UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN M. BROSIUS, OF LIBERTY, VIRGINIA.

IMPROVEMENT FOR UTILIZING STEAM.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 55,810, dated June 26, 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN M. BROSIUS, of Liberty, in the county of Bedford and State method of connecting locomotive boilers with stationary engines, for supplying tenders with water, sawing wood, and other purposes; and Ido hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the nature, construction, and operation of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which are made a part of this speciication, and in which- Figure l is a side elevation of a locomotive illustrative of my invention. Fig. 2 is an end elevation of a locomotive and stationary engine connected together according to my invention.

Similar let-ters of reference indicate correspondin g parts in the different figures.

The principal object of this invention is to utilize the steam which is generally blown ofi0 and wasted by engines temporarily stopping at stations to take in a fresh supply of water and fuel.

l provide each station or stoppingplace with a stationary engine arranged in suitable proximity with the railroad-track, and adapted to be connected by a pipe 'with the tender, so as to receive steam from the locomotive-boiler, and be thus made a medium for forcing water. into the tender, sawing wood to be used as fuel 011 the engine, and performing other work which may be accomplished by steam-power within the limited time in which the engine is permitted to remain at the station.

The intention is to have a stationary engine at such stopping-places as may be desired, and the steam from the locomotive may be made to operate more than one engine, if preferred.

To enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to fully understand and use the same, I will proceed to describe it in detail with the accompanying drawings.

A represents a stationary engine, which in this illustration consists principally of the cylinders B B, steam-chest C, supply-pipe D, exhaust-pipe, pistons F F, and crank-shaft G.

On the crank-shaft G is a wheel, H, which may drive a band, I, which passes over and rotates a pulley, J, on the end of a shaft, K,

which carries a circular saw, L, the latter being employed to cut wood upon the table M, in Which the shaft and saw are mounted.

One of the cylinders and its pistons constitute a pump, whereby water may be forced through the pipe N, which may be temporarily connected to the boiler of the locomotive O in order to supply the same with water.

The steam-dome of the locomotive carries at eiDch side a nozzle, P, provided witha throttle,

When the train reaches the station the supply-pipe D of the stationary engine A is connected with one of the nozzles P on the locomotive-dome by means of a liexihle tube, Q. The throttle I is then opened, and the stationary engine A is thus put in operation to supply the tender with'water, impart motion to the sawing apparatus, or perform such other functions as may be desired. As soon as the locomotive has received its supply. of water and fuel the throttle P 'is closed and the pipe Q detached, when the locomotive resumes its journey.

This invention will be found to save a great amount of manual labor and to materially expedite the taking of water and fuel for locomotives.

It will be perceived that by the means thus afforded a great number of engines, all of them necessary for depot duty and without boilers, located at intervals along the line of the railroad at the various stations, may be operated by steam from a single boiler, and the work be thus performed at a trifling expense, as the locomotive-boiler is attached in the intervals of other duty while waiting with steam up; or it may be performed by a yard locomotive-engine, which is kept for moving up and making up trains, which only occupies a part of its time.

Having thus described my invention, the following is what Iclaiin as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

The arrangement, with a stationary depot or water-station engine, of the locomotiveboiler, substantially in the manner and for the y purpose described.

. J. M.'BROSIUS.

'Witnessesz CEAS. D. SMITH, JOHN A. WIEDERSHEIM. 

